show.Rooms_regional: Fear and Space

11. - 21. October 2017 Klagenfurt, AT

As part of 25-year Architektur Haus Kärnten, a contemporary discourse between architecture and performance was set up under the title "Fear and Space". Which rooms scare us and why? show.Rooms explored this question together with the audience by reflecting on social conditions and architectural intentions through intervention and participation. In short performances the audience experienced various contributions in six performance rooms. Among the guides who accompanied them throughout the evening were an insurance consultant, a hospice attendant, a stewardess, and an architect The performance rooms in and around the Architektur Haus Kärnten included the outside.Room// lecture in the Park with Daniel Wutti (transgenerational rooms) and Robert Passegger (public parks), the park.Room// installation by Ulrich Kaufmann in a parking garage a. o. with a text of Marlene Streeruwitz, the hear.Room// Radio Agora live on air with guests, the prison.Room// walk through the penal institution Klagenfurt with Susanne Axmann, the speak.Room// Simone Schönett reads in a physiotherapy room from her book "The private dinner", the think.Room// biographies surrounding the Architektur Haus Kärnten of 25 architects, the new.Room// dialog and networking.

The project was funded by: Federal Chancellery, Government of Carinthia, City of Klagenfurt. A cooperation with the Architektur Haus Kärnten.

show.Rooms_regional is an intervention on a marginalized topic in several vacant business premises of a city together with regional artists, scholars and associations that work on the topic. A more detailed explanation of the format can be found here.